On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:52:44PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Mattias Geniar wrote: > > > could be a work-around I can live with, but it doesn't appear there is. > > I'd hope you'd see these problems almost entirely go away in future with a > switch to sssd rather than nss_ldap, as it makes the whole process a lot more > stateful and aware of what's going on. > Fear not, Fedora has managed to have that break things for many people too. I see they just closed the bug with a won't fix, though the fix is known and available. > Having an rc.local that does an nsswitch.conf twiddle is probably a viciously > robust way of dealing with this problem... Unnecessary too. :) See my earlier email. I might as well give a link to my ldap page, so if anyone else comes across this, they can see the issue mentioned withfix. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/ldap.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Buffy: You sound like Mr. Initiative! 'Demons bad, people good.' Riley: Something wrong with that theorem?